quick thoughts on Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner

Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner been aging well in my mind, so might as well write a bit (probs wrong cuz I am not good at irl politics and all, lul) Here Coppola basically saying that Turn A Gundam is just the peak war story








Still think Apocalypse Now was a bit good at being anti-war as well, not because of war, but directly showing how people were incapable of living in civilization and only had to either cope by finding comfort in the war

(that will eventually either end or will end you) and jungles, or go insane and be a scapegoat for people trying to uphold their own civilization, it being both tribes and well America So its good at these long term effects


Another thing I liked: Apocalypse Now structure not only shows how insane the people get as they descent deeper and deeper, but also shows how people are slowly making civilization of their own along the way, so its kind of an amalgamation as a path, and


when you see French people having almost normal household amidst the jungle, it makes you see just how much of a crazy idea it is for the 'society' of traumatised people to see 'normal' civil people - almost exactly how


crazy it is for the normal society to see traumatised people in their environment





For Blade Runner Its the whole 'More Human Than Human' AD - they make money (and influence? don't really remember) out of humanity. They say they make robots more human but they actually are repressing their emotions to the fullest, which is ironic because


humans themselves are clinging to machinery and inhumanity in and of itself - so when they die after 4 years, its not really about the exact 4 year life span, but the complexity of emotional maturity that kills them, as they reach the peak of it,


which is highligted by Roy (well iirc the girl also goes on a contrasting journey but still) - not only his structure as a character is to go through all stages of grief before he eventually dies, but he is hunting down both humans and well birds at his own free will, meaning that he as a next step of evolution (especially after beating his own maker in chess) had full control on whether he was human or an inhuman animal, but could not have done anything to himself being a 'robot' (which also was just a manufactured label by the corporation, because these robots were still actually made out of human DNA, so the difference between the robot and a human is as thin as it gets). So its not like he just died conveniently at the perfect time, but he just reached his emotional peak, while also having full control on it (not avenging) and Deckard sitting there, barely comprehending things and thus not being able to control nothing (as well having Roy to reverse the situation of the slavery, by the fear - 'what could have been' if mankind did not do what they did out of fear)


It starts as grey movie but we see our protagonist raping a robot, so its not really a case of not having a redeemable MC being a problem, because it fits the narrative of humanity becoming inhuman, so it was the necessity. Basically, the initial slogan coming true